Current mood: Leslie Lamport once defined a distributed system as one in which the failure of a computer you didn't know existed can prevent you from getting anything done.
Welcome Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder as #curl commit author 1433: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2030…
docs: update configure examples by Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder · Pull Request #20301 · curl/curl
Autotools ./configure requires selecting a TLS backend explicitly (or using --without-ssl). Several docs/examples still show ./configure without any TLS backend flag, which fails on current sources...GitHub
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated and 3 added apps, plus 1 added from the weekend:
* Quick UPI: QR code generator via Quick Settings Tile 🛡️
* Oksigenia SOS: safety and distress alerts with fall and inactivity detection 🛡️
* RepoStore: turns GitHub releases into a clean, Play Store-style experience 🛡️
* advanced text encryption utility designed for zero-trust environments 🛡️
RB status: 806 apps (62.2%)
Enjoy your #free #apps at the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
I think it’s really stupid that in order for you to type the period on a touchscreen keyboard, you have to click the numbers at the bottom just to get to it. In address bars, and email address fields, it’s right there next to the spacebar. Why can’t it be like that in all textfields? This is why I prefer texting on my laptop. I think there should be an extra row of preferred and most used punctuation symbols. That would make typing a whole lot more convenient.
am I the only person on FreeBSD 15 who is experiencing OpenVPN correctly installing routes, and then after some undetermined period of time they just disappear? The VPN is still up, all the routes are gone. Zero explanation.
"I can't believe Mozilla would ask for our input" says the people who have been begging for this
What the shit? Listening to Spotify while being in a Discord voice channel (alone) made it buffer, or as I found out, auto stop every few seconds. I only have one question: why? Apparently this is a feature? Who wants that kind of piss as feature. Leave my music alone.
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Spotify Auto Pause
Oh no! Spotify keeps pausing while you're listening, but why?! If you are transmitting with your mic in voice chat for 30 seconds while Spotify is playing, Spotify will stop playing, and you'll get...Discord
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Funny enough if you screen share your entire screen, not just Spotify, this will not occur, and I have never had this happen when not sharing your audio.
Welcome to Discord, the app that gives you all the bloat. Such nonsense features that nobody ever cares about.
Ugh. I'm so frustrated I could cry. Windows 11 you are so genuinely terrible.
@techsinger I don't count on anything with microsoft anymore. I used to think that while they had issues they were good at coming back and fixing them, now I don't believe that.
was in web based KVM
in the shell
used CTRL+W to try to delete the last word...
closed the tab instead...
#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.
Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.
Sources:
youtube.com/watch?v=RF3BuIcDYj…
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bon…
via @davidgerard @ParadeGrotesque
Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals
Oracle sells enterprise databases. It’s a very solid business. They have so many corporate and government deals that Larry Ellison doesn’t even slightly have to pretend to be human any more. But El…Pivot to AI
To keep it simple, I’ll introduce two new settings that apply to all long vowels: longVowelWordFinalScale and longVowelCodaScale, both defaulting to 1.0. This allows users to easily adjust scaling without breaking existing setups.
What are people using for telegram these days, thinking about switching mastodon clients but would need something for telegram because I do still use it. Rarely but I do.
"The idea of using a YAML map for flexible vowel scaling seems good. It allows any vowel to be specified, not just English ones. I think applying the scale only to lengthened vowels fits with the user’s request while keeping short vowels unchanged. I'll check the existing setup to make sure everything aligns."
You better. I'm done implementing settings by hand into this thing. C++ is getting old.
You better. I'm done implementing settings by hand into this thing. C++ is getting old.
"I'd rather you pollute my community so my children can choke on your exhaust fumes than see you driving a Tesla"
- totally normal opinions by people who are not deranged at all and 100% care about the planet and definitely wanted a Green New Deal 
Well done Apple on the quality, design and construction of my 2009 iMac which still runs perfectly to this day. Fuck you Apple for withdrawing all support for my 2009 iMac so, despite still being in perfect working condition, it's slowly dying as its software becomes obsolete.
Currently testing FastSM.
@Bri I like FastSM a lot, and it lives up to its name, I'm convinced it's faster than TweeseCake. I'm very pleazsed with what I know of it so far, but I have one question: would it be possible in future for us to open the client without the GUI coming up? I tend to prefer the invisible interface, so it would be nice to be able to open FastSM with the window hidden straight away.
that moment when you type mud commands in to the fast sm window, and nothing happendes! stop it Darren!
for those of you that live near where I do, here is a video for you to watch.
Snow & Blowing Snow Today & Tuesday 3 minutes, 15 seconds
youtube.com/watch?v=BYHb2zj3lO…
Snow & Blowing Snow Today & Tuesday
Mid-Michigan morning weather forecast for 1/19/26 from WILX News 10YouTube
@Bri I do understand the problem, I really do, but I do have a possible plan to try to resolve this.
POV: Macie #ADHD i naprawdę spore problemy z przetwarzaniem tego, co słyszycie, a typ z którym rozmawiacie przez telefon się bardzo spieszy. Najważniejszym elementem rozmowy ze spieszącym się typem jest zdobycie adresu. Adres jest w miejscowości Mąchocice-Scholasteria.
Koniec żartu.
***badum-tsssssss***
(tak, typ powtórzył pięć razy, ja musiałam zapisać)
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Nie zapominajmy o mazowieckiej wsi z pięcioma stacjami/przystankami kolejowymi. The metropolis of Czachówek, psze państwa.
Hey!
If I were to write a more err, interestingly/informative newsletter about tech and open source and wanted to offer paid subscriptions, what do people suggest? something that isn't medium/substack?
Is that new show: On Brand with Jimmy Fallon worth it? Not sure. I like reality shows, sometimes, and it does sound interesting, maybe to get out of code space.
oh my gosh. So even if you load the 64-bit NVDA after using the 32-bit NVDA, your system gets fucked. List view controls don't read right, alt+tab switcher stops reading your enumerations and window list, it's horrifying. So, don't flip between them often, you'll need a system restart, I can't believe we're in 2026 dealing with that.
That's so weird, I have never seen that, even when I switch between 2026.1 builds and my installed 2024.
I haven't powered up the Development VM since November. Kinda scared to since VSCode will most likely update, and every time it does, it breaks settings that I have to then track down and edit! Oy! But also really would like to get back to working on my Apps. Gotta switch Soundkeys over to...something other than WX because the Accessibility issues are driving me bonkers and UIA doesn't seem to be working much better. I do like Python a lot, though.
RE: dragonscave.space/@ZBennoui/11…
This is honestly super cool. I wonder if Ableton works with NI stuff, Native Instruments.
I should really go to bed but first have this thing I spent the last few hours making in Ableton. It's a remix of "Be Like You" by Taylor Acorn and it's probably one of my favorite songs of the last few years. Here's the original: youtu.be/Cys2K0rx2T0
Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)
Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)Stream Survival in Motion: https://onerpm.link/survivalinmotionFollow Taylor:▶ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/a...YouTube
Well, I heard you all loud and clear. In the next pack update we're going back to some of the old values in the phoneme file but with language-specific safeguards in place to make NVSpeech sound not like it is speech impaired. Nothing against those who are, it's just that robots are too perfectly made of math to need to suffer from those problems
Today is a company holiday in the US I think, but I sat in on an AI best practices meeting anyhow, since I still know next to nothing about AI, and upper management cares about it.
Someone made a comment that AI will change the nature of technical/development positions.
So I wonder, will it? I presume it will, in some way, since most change has consequences, but I feel like it's too early to say how or to what extent?
It's fascinating how much change there is right now, both in terms of technology created by humans and the ecology of the planet due to humans.
I think about the Mesozoic Era and how long it lasted and how there must have been long states of stasis, with each generation of any given life form essentially playing the same role as the last.
But maybe long periods of stasis followed by relatively rapid bursts of change constitute the norm (the meteor that ended the Mesozoic initiating the latter, for instance).
So I wonder if/when we will enter another period of relative calm and what it will look like, but it feels impossible to say.
I presume that life 20 years from now will be similar to life in 2025 but different in some ways, and life in 2065 will be similar to 2045 but different in some ways, and so on, but, if I were to fall asleep and wake up 1,000 years from now, then the world would be utterly unrecognizable to me.
Someone made a comment that AI will change the nature of technical/development positions.
So I wonder, will it? I presume it will, in some way, since most change has consequences, but I feel like it's too early to say how or to what extent?
It's fascinating how much change there is right now, both in terms of technology created by humans and the ecology of the planet due to humans.
I think about the Mesozoic Era and how long it lasted and how there must have been long states of stasis, with each generation of any given life form essentially playing the same role as the last.
But maybe long periods of stasis followed by relatively rapid bursts of change constitute the norm (the meteor that ended the Mesozoic initiating the latter, for instance).
So I wonder if/when we will enter another period of relative calm and what it will look like, but it feels impossible to say.
I presume that life 20 years from now will be similar to life in 2025 but different in some ways, and life in 2065 will be similar to 2045 but different in some ways, and so on, but, if I were to fall asleep and wake up 1,000 years from now, then the world would be utterly unrecognizable to me.
A to jsem nadával na 10 cm před barákem
zpravy.aktualne.cz/zahranici/s…
zpravy.aktualne.cz/zahranici/s…
Sněhová apokalypsa? Kamčatku zasypala obří nadílka, kalamitu dramatizují AI videa
Poloostrov Kamčatka na východě Ruska se potýká s přívaly sněhu, jaké nezažil více než 50 let. Místní obyvatelé vyprávějí o pětimetrových závějích.ČTK (Aktuálně.cz)
THE WAR FOR THE OPEN WEB WILL BE WON IN THE STREETS!
GET OUT THERE!
RAISE HELL!
ATTACK!
ARISE!
BECOME UNCOMPUTABLE!
BE THE GLITCH IN THEIR SYSTEM!
BECOME THE SIGNAL THEY CANNOT JAM!
ON THE BUS!
GET ON THE BUS!
RIDE THE BUS!
WITH THE CARDBOARD SIGN!
CAN'T STOP THAT!
DO YOU THINK THEY'LL BAN WIZARDS FROM THE BUSSES?
THEY CAN'T STOP US!
I HAVE A FUCKING BUS PASS AND I'M PREPARED TO USE IT!
ONE BILLION CARDBOARD SIGNS!
ONE BILLION WEB SERVERS!
NOW IS THE TIME!
BECOME THE FUNGUS!
THE MULCH MUST FLOW!
TRASH ROBOT DOT NET!
GET OUT THERE!
RAISE HELL!
ATTACK!
ARISE!
BECOME UNCOMPUTABLE!
BE THE GLITCH IN THEIR SYSTEM!
BECOME THE SIGNAL THEY CANNOT JAM!
ON THE BUS!
GET ON THE BUS!
RIDE THE BUS!
WITH THE CARDBOARD SIGN!
CAN'T STOP THAT!
DO YOU THINK THEY'LL BAN WIZARDS FROM THE BUSSES?
THEY CAN'T STOP US!
I HAVE A FUCKING BUS PASS AND I'M PREPARED TO USE IT!
ONE BILLION CARDBOARD SIGNS!
ONE BILLION WEB SERVERS!
NOW IS THE TIME!
BECOME THE FUNGUS!
THE MULCH MUST FLOW!
TRASH ROBOT DOT NET!
"Cow Tools 🐮" : Brown Swiss (cow) in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
theguardian.com/science/2026/j…
#Cows
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzeesIan Sample (The Guardian)
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From the 17 January edition of The Week:
"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission keeps a database of the various items that people in America have got stuck in their rectums. The most recent
data shows that about 4,000 people (average age: 43) seek hospital treatment for such mishaps per year. Among the items recorded were beard clippers, a sandal, uncooked pasta, a dog chew toy, an egg, a turkey baster, a pair of glasses and a shampoo bottle."
The mind is not the only thing that boggles 😂
Can I still downgrade back to iOS 18?
I'm not generally a huge user of hashtags, but the mastodon "featured" profile tab is useful, so I'm using a hashtag to group the various threads related to my WIP "The General Theory of Slop" so they're easier to find and follow.
Dmytri (@dk@tldr.nettime.org)
918 Posts, 959 Following, 726 Followers · Venture Communisttldr.nettime
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A script that disables social networks at the firewall level when you press the (Doom) Scroll Lock key.
Also, people can now play around with a new setting: legacyPitchInflectionScale (default 0.58) - if you feel like it's overly inflected, lowering it while having the LegacyPitchMode set to true will improve things. I realized what made him sound like his balls were squeezed. The default inflection on the 2016 era driver used inflection 35, but we now us inflection 60 at default. So that scale setting will help. Or you can lower the inflection itself in your setting to the desired effect. The formula we do: effectiveInflection = inflection * legacyPitchInflectionScale
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For some reason, I could not see these settings in the voice dialogue, is there a different place to look?
I tried to replicate the classic inflection of Older NVSpeech player, not sure how close or far it is but here we are. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… (this is just a test build to see what feedback I get)
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